YoumayaskwhyIwrotethisbook.Therearemany,manypersonalreasonsaswithanyauthor
I suppose. The first two reasons and probably the most important are my love of flying and
my love of radio engineering. This may sound rather dull but I love flying in any machine be
it balloon, glider, propeller aircraft, microlight through to airline jets and the experience of it.
The more I do it the more I feel I understand it.
This book has grown out of my teaching and research at the University of Surrey and out of
my previous experiences in companies such as Philips, Ascom and Motorola. It is
primarily intended for use by students in master’s level and enhanced final-year under-
graduate courses who are specialising in communication systems and wish to understand
the principles and current practices of the wireless communication channel, including both
antenna and propagation aspects
The genesis for this book was my involvement with the development of the
SystemView (now SystemVue) simulation program at Elanix, Inc. Over several
years of development, technical support, and seminars, several issues kept recur-
ring. One common question was, “How do you simulate (such and such)?” The sec-
ond set of issues was based on modern communication systems, and why particular
developers did what they did. This book is an attempt to gather these issues into a
single comprehensive source.
When joining Siemens in 2001, I also extended my research interest towards radio net-
work planning methodologies. This area of research brought together my personal interest
in mobile communications and in the design of efficient algorithms and data structures.
Between 2001 and 2003, I participated in the EU project Momentum, which was target-
ing the performance evaluation and optimization of UMTS radio networks. I
Wireless technologies like GSM, UMTS, LTE, Wireless LAN and Bluetooth have
revolutionized the way we communicate by making services like telephony and Internet
access available anytime and from almost anywhere. Today, a great variety of technical
publications offer background information about these technologies but they all fall
short in one way or another. Books covering these technologies usually describe only
one of the systems in detail and are generally too complex as a first introduction. The
Internet is also a good source, but the articles one finds are usually too short and super-
ficial or only deal with a specific mechanism of one of the systems. For this reason, it
was difficult for me to recommend a single publication to students in my telecommunication
classes, which I have been teaching in addition to my work in the wireless telecommunication
industry. This book aims to change this.
Wireless technologies like GSM, UMTS, LTE, Wireless LAN and Bluetooth have revolu-
tionized the way we communicate and exchange data by making services like telephony and
Internet access available anytime and from almost anywhere. Today, a great variety of techni-
cal publications offer background information about these technologies but they all fall short
in one way or another. Books covering these technologies usually describe only one of the
systems in detail and are generally too complex as a first introduction. The Internet is also a
good source, but the articles one finds are usually too short and superficial or only deal with
a specific mechanism of one of the systems. For this reason, it was difficult for me to recom-
mend a single publication to students in my telecommunication classes, which I have been
teaching in addition to my work in the wireless telecommunication industry. This book aims
to change this.
Throughout the course of my work in multihop mobile ad hoc networks (MANET)
over the last several years, I reached the conclusion that mobility models and perfor-
mance metrics need to be treated in detail in designing these networks that are the
ultimatefrontierinwirelesscommunications. Awidevarietyofmobilitymodelscan
be used by mobile nodes.
The genesis for this book was my involvement with the development of the
SystemView (now SystemVue) simulation program at Elanix, Inc. Over several
years of development, technical support, and seminars, several issues kept recur-
ring. One common question was, “How do you simulate (such and such)?” The sec-
ond set of issues was based on modern communication systems, and why particular
developers did what they did. This book is an attempt to gather these issues into a
single comprehensive source.
With this book at your fingertips, you, the reader, and I have something in common. We share
the same interest in mobile radio channels. This area attracted my interest first in autumn 1992
whenImovedfromindustrytoacademiatofindachallengeinmylifeandtopursueascientific
career. Since then, I consider myself as a student of the mobile radio channel who lives for
modelling, analyzing, and simulating them. While the first edition of this book resulted from
my teaching and research activities at the Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg (TUHH),
Germany, the present second edition is entirely an outcome of my work at the University of
Agder, Norway.
